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to offer some of my pieces on approval. Mr. Emerson gives me this chance. He is about preparing a S.S. Book, to be unclear by the 1st of next August. I shall send him Four Efforts, the last of this month.

Dell has two new songs, in sheet music; one of which is this,--"In the Gloaming." Very pretty, I think.

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If we were always well & strong; always happy & prosperous, the hand of town? sympathy & friendship would withhold its sweetest tokens.

Feb. 9-- Guiteau?, the miserable wretch who an murdered President Garfield has been sentenced to be hung next June--the 30th. A righteous verdict, I think.

"Faith in Record" came yesterday--much